Dune: Part Two review – second half of hallucinatory sci-fi epic is staggering spectacle
Denis Villeneuve’s monumental adaptation expands its extraordinary world of shimmering strangeness. It’s impossible to imagine anyone doing it better
The Rejects by Jamie Collinson review – almost famous
From Pete Best to Florence Ballard and the guy who managed to get fired from both Nirvana and Soundgarden, a history of rock and pop’s also-rans
On my radar: Dave Eggers’s cultural highlights
The American author on whale watching, Kehinde Wiley’s hypnotic paintings and an indispensable Canadian singer-songwriter
In brief: Piglet; Free Play; A Spell of Good Things – review
A bride’s wedding day preparations go awry in a propulsive page-turner; a violinist’s inspirational guide to everyday creativity; and a moving Dickensian tale of two citizens in Nigeria
‘Gloom is good’: after my wife died I found solace in poetry and music
You can’t fight death, sickness, ageing and life’s various indignities, but you can play very loud rock’n’roll
On my radar: Kiell Smith-Bynoe’s cultural highlights
The actor and comedian on an R&B gem, comedy without the drama and why he loves an old-school market
Blue Giant review – electrifying animation captures the ecstasy of live music
A sublime score from Hiromi Uehara drives this coming-of-age-anime, which brings three young jazz musicians to life with spectacular imagery
On my radar: Jake Shears’s cultural highlights
The American musician, formerly of Scissor Sisters, on erotic Hollywood, video game sleuthing and unidentified flying objects
Where We Come From by Aniefiok Ekpoudom review – a social history of British rap
This unusual account of a musical movement eschews grand narratives and embraces the small-scale
Phew, Eh Readers? The Life and Writing of Tom Hibbert review – the PG Wodehouse of pop journalism
As this collection illustrates, the late Smash Hits and Q scribe was an inimitable master of mischief whose interviews skewered everyone from Bros to Margaret Thatcher
On my radar: Margo Price’s cultural highlights
The US country star on learning a new instrument at 40, her favourite place to eat in Nashville and an app she’s happy to have send her to sleep
The Sterns Are Listening by Jonathan Wells review – a tight and taut family drama… with a punk soundtrack
In the US poet and memoirist’s debut novel, dark secrets are leavened by rich language and comic invention
‘Life is about creating yourself’: on Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine
The Dylan Center in Tulsa offers a read as endlessly fascinating, as vital to the American story, as its subject himself
Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir to be posthumously published this autumn
Book co-written with the star’s daughter Riley Keough promises to reveal ‘the complexity of being a Presley’
Unruly by David Mitchell review – a Horrible Histories with added swearing
Tales of familial hatred, infidelity, murder and spectacular incompetence, in a joyfully narrated history of England’s kings and queens